Abstract:
Manufacture of expandable styrene polymers which on expansion provide oval saddle-shaped discs suitable for use as bulk cushioning material. In the process, cylindrical extrudates of expandable styrene polymers are deformed at form 70* to 90*C by means of rollers to form strands of oval cross-section, which strands are then sliced to form discs by cutting in the direction of the short axis of said oval cross-section.
Abstract:
Solutions of N-vinylpyrrolidone polymers can be prepared with particular advantage by polymerization of N-vinylpyrrolidone in an aqueous medium by adding the polymerization catalyst in portions or continuously to the monomer solution in the form of a finely divided suspension in an aqueous solution of Nvinylpyrrolidone polymer.
Abstract:
Solutions of N-vinylpyrrolidone polymers can be prepared with particular advantage by polymerization of N-vinylpyrrolidone in an aqueous medium by adding the polymerization catalyst in portions or continuously to the monomer solution in the form of a finely divided suspension in an aqueous solution of N-vinylpyrrolidone polymer.
Abstract:
1,126,913. Expandable styrene polymers. BADISCHE ANILIN- & SODA-FABRIK A.G. 14 Jan., 1966 [16. Jan., 1965], No. 1819/66. Headings C3C and C3P. Particulate expandable styrene polymers are produced by polymerizing styrene with or without one or more olefinically unsaturated monomeric polymerizable compounds in aqueous suspension in the presence of an expanding agent and 0À001 to 1% by weight on the monomers of a water-insoluble polymer of a vinyl ester, vinyl ether, acrylic ester or methacrylic ester of molecular weight 10 4 to 10 6 which will dissolve in the monomers and which is not homogeneously miscible with the styrene polymers obtained. In examples styrene, with optionally acrylonitrile, was polymerized in an aqueous mixture of a copolymer of N-vinylpyrrolidone and methyl acrylate, sodium pyrophosphate, benzoyl peroxide; pentane, hexane, butane and/or dichlorofluoromethane; and either polyvinyl isobutyl ether, polymethyl acrylate or methacrylate, poly-2-ethylhexyl acrylate, polyvinyl acetate, a butyl acrylate/vinyl acetate copolymer, polyethyl acrylate or polyvinyl propionate.